Hello wpWave team,

my WordPress installation uses a theme that reproduces uploaded video files in the background of the home page. The files are located in /wp-content/uploads/2017/filename.mp4 (for example). We switched on Hide my WP in order to rename the URL to /file/2017/09/filename.mp4, but the browser is not playing the videos, and these messages show up in Firefox developer console:

– HTTP “Content-Type” of “text/html” is not supported. Load of media resource https://www.icrowdhouse.com/file/2017/09/ich-home.mp4 failed.
– All candidate resources failed to load. Media load paused.
– Cannot play media. No decoders for requested formats: text/html

The browser request is giving me a “302 Moved Temporarily” response code.

It seems this only happens to video files. Other files loaded from the new generated URL (/file/2017/09/…) work. Files with extensions such as .jpg, .png are loaded and presented as expected.

Could you please advise on what can be done here?

Cheers,